Finally! I've seen bits & pieces discussed of this important issue, but never pulled together. Question: Are plans for large databases for non-European/East Asian populations in the pipeline?https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/08/22/398396 …
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Replying to @charlesmurray
The Biobank Japan Project (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0917504016300673 …); the Born in Guangzhou Cohort Study (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05522-1 …); the HUST-Suzhou Institute for Brainsmatics possibly (https://www.nature.com/news/china-launches-brain-imaging-factory-1.22456 …) and Chinese PLA General Hospital's deafness project (https://www.nature.com/news/china-s-embrace-of-embryo-selection-raises-thorny-questions-1.22468 …)...
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Replying to @gwern @charlesmurray
BGI last I heard was still recruiting local/Beijing other top-scorers on standardized tests & olympiads, but no idea if they're still doing that. Outside the Anglosphere, the Scandinavian biobanks are gearing up eg Estonia's 100k https://www.illumina.com/company/news-center/feature-articles/estonia-offers-100-000-residents-free-genetic-testing-.html …https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/07/04/356204 …
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Replying to @gwern @charlesmurray
>calling Estonia Scandinavianpic.twitter.com/wfKbAu9bOc
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Replying to @KirkegaardEmil @charlesmurray
It has a population registry & military draft, cellphones, white people, a language no one speaks, and snow == Scandinavia.
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>thinking Finnish is Scandinavian reallyrustled.png
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Replying to @browserdotsys @KirkegaardEmil and
Speaking Finnish has been shown to methylate your genes into expressed alignment with Finnish phenotype
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